Detouring around Family Law Courts

The answer to the muck of family law is in public education, to bypass the courts if at all possible. Collaborative law, which has closed all family courts in one Canadian province and is gaining ground in this country.

Regarding the latest, child shooting . . .

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/breaking_news/4467647.htm

The California mother who fled family court and straight into the arms of the con artist,

http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/4472785.htm is not .

Unlike those utilizing the courts and conned by con artists, working in the court system. I have depositions of, state employees, for the Family Court Services, in San Diego, employed as mediators, with custody decisions made, based on their reports. (In deposition they admited faking their credentials, out of ego), Consider the seventeen year old sniper was brainwashed by the man who lost custody of his kids, the cash cows of the family law industry, The industry is not only, completely unregulated, but a billion dollar business generated entirely by judges.

March - Cover Story of San Diego Magazine

http://www.sandiegomag.com/issues/march02/featurea0302.shtml

The short take on family law is family law is that it's an industry of which kids are the cash cows. Consider the Contra Costa mother with Alameda and San Joaquin County's vendetta against Debra Schmidt, who lost custody to convicted child molester, and spent a year in jail until the appellate court stepped in.

http://www.sfweekly.com/issues/2002-06-19/bayview.html/1/index.html

Judges are calling the tune, in a completely unregulated, unreported industry, and the name of the tune is the, Money Tree Shake. Some Florida and Arizona family judges are requiring parents post a hundred percent bond before the courts will let them see their children. Full bonds, not 10%. These bonds are based on "hunches" parents *might* take a child, no crimes committed, a "hunch." One bond was for a small amount, but the other was seventy thousand. (I know the bail agency which wrote both.) Family law, because it is not reported on the business pages, generally escapes the attention of the media . . . who likewise are unaware how two, separate branches of government, law enforcement, and administration, blended.

http://www.familylawcourts.com/domestic.html and http://www.familylawcourts.com/badcop.html

Marin County - Cronyism, no law practiced here

http://www.sfweekly.com/issues/2000-10-18/feature.html/print.html

The May 2001, report from the California Judicial Council, confirmed what litigants have known for decades. Quotes from it begin with the most striking:

Page 152

“Court-appointed attorneys and psychologists were seen by all participants as exacerbating conflicts between the parties rather than helping minimize it.”

Eleven court appearances, but Judge refuses to enforce orders he made.

http://www.familylawcourts.com/vista.html

Letter printed in Union-Tribune In other words, the judges are the problem.

http://www.familylawcourts.com/domestic.html

“Almost without exception participants believed there was bias in the system, and cited examples."

For custodial parents, there was an incentive to limit the time of the non-custodial parent to one or two days a week.

Sacramento, more of the same:

http://www.newsreview.com/issues/sacto/2002-03-21/cover.asp

Eight years of supervised visitation - who benefits from that?

http://www.notverynice.com

It's been going on so long, kids are turning eighteen, and suing their Guardian Ad Litems.

http://www.nationalcoalition.net/News/MarinChildSpeaks.htm

Trevor Nolan, who died within 12 days of a judicial ruling,

http://www.msbp.com/dale.htm

was the inspiration behind

http://www.familylawcourts.com.

The natural expectation after Trevor's death, would be the judge expressed remorse and returned the woman's healthy son to her. He did not. Absent any evidence, the judge reasoned, mother might have neglected her healthy son while tending to her terminally ill son. Although, applying that line of reasoning, the mother would no longer neglect her healthy son as her sick son was now dead. The judge refused to return her surviving child to her. It took a lawsuit and another thirty months, before The State of California was forced to restore the surviving son to his mother. The judge remains on the bench. He was not held accountable by the Commission on Judicial Performance, as in their forty year history, they have removed a grand total of 18 judges, and none from the family court.

http://www.familylawcourts.com/budget.html

Not only are more and more family law cases are winding up in criminal courts...women who report abuse are getting arrested And losing custody of their kids; as the below study from the National Resource Center on Violence, demonstrates.

http://www.vaw.umn.edu/Vawnet/custody.doc

There are a number of sources, attorneys, victims, kids, willing to speak out,

http://www.familylawcourts.com/kidsspeak.html

but frankly, the business of government is business; and until the people simply don't go, having found another way to untagle their lives . . . curbing the money flow, reducing the income source, won't happen. However, once people chose not to to court first, everything will change. The court option should be the very last option taken.

How quickly does it go bad? - A sampling:

Losing all parental rights in forty-eight hours.

http://www.cnn.com/2002/LAW/07/03/ctv.nanny/index.html

Losing children from a landlord–tenant dispute.

http://www.thewpbfchannel.com/wpb/news/stories/news-162295820020820-110847.html

It gets worse. The number of children brainwashed by one parent against the other, and eliminated from the life of the child; is staggering. The ABA distributes a gem of a book, "Children Held Hostage" which not only describes how and why an embittered parent turns their child against the targeted parent, but is very clear in another area: judges don't want to deal with it, and aren't equipped to.

Collaborative Law is the solution. Divorce for thousands less, and protect everyone's emotional health. Details are available, but because the folks practicing aren't the best in bad public relations, few are aware where to obtain information.